The time has come for climate populism!

The class struggle and the climate struggle must become one. The top 1% spew as much planet-heating pollution as the entirety of the bottom 50%. Stop blaming people with plastic straws. Start blaming plutocrats. That's how we win. (1/8)🧵 We won't win with sleep-inducing drivel about "market-based solutions" and "net-zero by 2050." No one cares about that!

We CAN win, but only by rightfully blaming the billionaire class who treats humanity as their servants and the planet as their personal garbage dump. (2/8)

They pretend this is ok. They act like this is normal. The brunches and happy hours and flute lessons proceed. The climate criminals continue galavanting between galas and global forums, honored as "thought leaders" and heralded as drivers of the "energy transition." (1/17) 🧵 The "journalists" dully churn out uninspired "thought pieces" about the word latinex, as scientists voice desperate and gut-wrenching pleas that this moment is "code red for humanity." (2/17)

The COP29 Summit ended today. Cosplaying as the premier global climate forum, it devolved into a carnival of bickering and backstabbing and delay. We will not sugarcoat the truth: this year's summit was a failure for humanity, a scar on our moral fabric. (1/13) 🧵 First, some background: every year the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change puts on a Conference of Parties, or, in short, a COP. This year's conference was the 29th, and it was held in Azerbaijan, a major petro state. (2/13)

This is urgent. No one is talking about it but the U.S. House of Representatives is debating a bill TODAY that would give the President unlimited, unilateral power to shut down any organization that defies him. We explain: (1/8) 🧵 The bill is called H.R. 9495.

It came up for a rushed vote last week, and failed, but only because a 2/3 majority was required. Now Republicans are trying to revive it under regular procedure - meaning it would only require a simple majority. (2/8)

This is horrific. This is obscene. The World Meteorological Organization just dropped a major new report. 2024 will be the warmest year on record. This is a "red alert." We break down this new study here:

(1/13) 🧵 Global temperatures have ALREADY risen 1.54 degrees Celsius, so far this year. The safe limit is 1.5 degrees.

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The Democratic Party is a failure. It lost the trust of the American people because it offered nothing to them. Its fluffiness, floppiness & complicity in genocide forked over the Presidency to fascists. It must be dismembered before it can reemerge. Full stop. (1/14) Kamala Harris did not fight for the working class, so the working class did not fight for her. Her brother-in-law, who is her top advisor, serves right now as the CFO of Uber!! Is it any surprise that she lost non-college voters? Is it any surprise? (2/14)

Jill Stein is not a prophet. She is not a visionary. She is a narcissist. Her supporters are righteous, but she exploits their grief. Profoundly unserious – a joke, in fact – she does not give a damn about the children of Gaza for whom she cries crocodile tears. (1/15) There are 535 seats in the House+Senate. Jill Stein’s Green Party controls none of them.
There are 7383 state legislative seats in the US. Jill Stein’s Green Party controls none of them.
Jill is more focused on building a personality cult than building political power. (2/15)

No. The two candidates are not "equally evil."
Only one rapes women, bans Muslims, incites mobs and uses Nazi language about minorities "poisoning the blood" of the nation.
And it's widely ignored but on climate Trump is uniquely vile. We share full details here (1/12)🧵 A vast array of critically-important regulations are at risk if Trump wins. Presently, the EPA is working to regulate toxic, planet-heating emissions from power plants. Trump would scrap that. He'd also likely defund the EPA. (2/12)

No one is talking about it but there's a documented, detailed conspiracy to shred our bedrock environmental laws. It's all in writing - in Project 2025. The media won't cover it - they're distracted by Trump fellating microphones - so we'll share the details here
🧵(1/20) First, some background, in case you are just tuning in: Project 2025 is an initiative of the ultra-conservative, extremist "Heritage Foundation." It aims to reshape - or dismantle - virtually every aspect of our society and democracy. (2/20)

The media is barely covering it but today in Valencia 95 human lives were snuffed out, extinguished brutally by profit-driven, planet-heating pollution and the catastrophic flooding that comes with it. Here is what we know so far.

🧵(1/8) Cars dangling from trees, rescuers wading through neck-deep water, entire communities destroyed. This is not a dystopian climate fiction novel, this is happening right here, right now. (2/8)

A brand-new report just found that billionaires are spewing as much carbon in 90 minutes as the average person emits in a lifetime. This is hideous. This is grotesque. This is a crime against humanity. If this does not shock you to your core, what will? What will?

🧵 (1/12) This is not a report from a Maoist zine in Berkeley. It is from Oxfam, a leading international humanitarian organization.

It found that if everyone emitted at the rate of the top 1%, our "carbon budget" would be spent in 5 months. Report is here. (2/12) oxfam.org/en/press-relea…

Words fail. Words fail. Today the World Meteorological Association released their annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin. Carbon levels have reached a level not seen since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago - when sea levels rose an astonishing 30-60 feet. We explain:
🧵 (1/14) You may wonder why sea levels have not risen 30-60 feet this time. They have not risen that much YET. They are a lagging indicator. Carbon levels rise and sea levels follow. (2/14)

There is no easy way to talk about this. This week the UN announced we are on track to reach up to 3.1° Celsius of warming. We are slated to blow past the goals of the Paris Accords. Here's what this means. (1/9) 🧵 As it stands we are on track to "plunge headlong into climate disaster."

This is not according to a leafletter on the sidewalk.

This is according to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, commenting on the newly released Emissions Gap Report.

(2/9) unep.org/resources/emis…

Big news. Big news. We just shut down the New York Times Climate Forum. We chased Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub right off the stage. We made her flee. We made the whole audience of 100s evacuate. The cops swooped in. 10 of our activists are in jail RIGHT NOW. 🧵 (1/7) Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub is a climate criminal. She should not be allowed to set foot in polite society. She should CERTAINLY not be honored at a New York Times Climate Forum. (2/7)

MAJOR UPDATE: Climate Defiance is endorsing Kamala Harris for President of the United States.

Harris is not the visionary we need, but she is the leader we can pressure and move. (1/12)🧵 A Trump Presidency would be a full-fledged disaster for our climate & our water & our lands. Trump would gut the EPA, tearing down regulations on cars and power plants and farms. He would sell out our sacred public spaces to his billionaire cronies. This is a nonstarter. (2/12)

The media is almost completely silent on it, but 1,000 people just perished from extreme flooding in Central and Western Africa. These are human beings with hopes and aspirations and families. How many more people must be lost before we do something? How many? 🧵 200 people in Nigeria. 265 in Niger. 487 in Chad. These deaths are very likely the result of human-induced planetary heating. These deaths might have been prevented had we been able to break our addiction to fossil fuels.

This is big. It got virtually no attention but the White House just finalized plans to protect 28,000,000 acres in Alaska from oil drilling. This is an area larger than all of Tennessee. Disruption works. Direct action works. Never lose faith. (1/5)🧵 Finalized last week, this decision represents years of good work by good people pushing tirelessly on the outside and the inside. (2/5)

Here's the story no one is telling you about Tim Walz: Until just a few years ago, he was a bona fide climate criminal. Today, he is celebrated as a climate champion.

Here's what happened🧵 First, this is what the other environmental groups refuse to say: Tim Walz oversaw the construction of Line 3, the 700,000 barrel-per-day tar sands oil pipeline through his state. It has the carbon footprint of 50 coal plants. It emits more than all of Minnesota TOTAL. (2/11)

14 reasons President Biden must immediately withdraw from the Presidential race:

1. He has no pathway to victory. His approval rating is 37%. No incumbent has ever won reelection with those numbers. 2. If he steps down now he will be remembered for passing historic climate legislation, codifying gay marriage, and defeating Trump. If he stays he will be remembered as a prideful, out-of-touch narcissist who stayed in the race to feed his own ego.

There is no easy way to talk about this. A new report just came out today, finding that fossil fuel usage is at an all-time high. Coal consumption grew 2% over a year and oil consumption grew 1.6%. We are careening towards an apocalypse yet we floor the accelerator 🧵 We've been spoon-fed rosy drivel our whole lives. It is a sham. 2050 pledges are nothing but tools of delay. Multi-stakeholder roundtables are nothing but forums for mustard-stained men to dither. (2/5)

Big update. We will shut down Kathy Hochul’s fundraiser. She just blocked congestion pricing. On Tuesday, car dealers will host a $5,000-per-plate benefit to thank her. We will show up. We will blockade. Save the date. Share with everyone.🧵 Hochul belongs in the Hague - not the Governor’s mansion.

She is a climate criminal and she must never know a moment of tranquility.

It is obscene that auto dealers wine and dine her as we die of asthma and cancer. (2/9)
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